Munnmo in LADS pit

I'm too lazy to make a proper introduction untl probably later, so:

+30 years old, she/they, European

Posting mostly anything about Love and Deepspace, especially Rafayel

main account: @munmomuu

Art, theories, photo edits, etc.

I absolutely need to go in and record Bounty Hunts more, these banters are great 🤭

He's tooooo cuteee 😭😭🥰

I know it's a little niche, but I've been cautiously following Fortune's Weave and now I just watched the Direct for it and LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm soo hyped 👀

I just don't have words to describe how annoyed I am. I'm disappointed and somehow I feel I'm the one who's the idiot here.

Like sure, I'm glad it's not Raf's myth. I have soon enough materials to get his R2 fairly surely without spending at all with doing the bare mininum.

But no apology for leaving us in the dark for so long? No addressing the wolf in the room at all? Even as someone who has been trying to look this at Infold's/Papergames' side and try to find logic in this, I can see they don't want to throw their best-selling cards in there for this, but this is just. What the fuck are you doing? You know what you need to do to fix this.

This is inexcusable. This gives toddler behaviour, like you know you have done something wrong, but don't want to admit it to take resposibility. That might be even insult for toddlers to compare Paperfold to them.

I have a tradition to record all new cards with Illusio & Raf's towel and swimwear.... I was looking so forward to it with Rising Tides... I didn't remember to do it because of the boycott 😭 oh weell, I guess I have to do it next time Illusio is around 🫣

Oh my god he is so cute why is he so perfect and so munchable and AAAAAA

I find it interesting that Infold/Papergames haven't still said anything. I'm hopeful for tomorrow, but it's interesting to see what happens next.

But I'm a big, firm believer in that infold/Papergames wants to solve this as soon as possible. It's just not in their benefit to keep this up in the air like this.

Something I want to point out, that even if they get some money (because there are people who don't care about the boycott or are just completely unaware), they are still getting less money than they expect.

Here's the entire history from earnings and downloads without July's income:

Even at their lowest, their revenue has been 30 million dollars based on SensorTower's data (which doesn't cover revenue from LADS official website or other means). Their true earnings are likely higher, but SensorTower's data shows a good overall situation for them.

It's clear that LADS has been always the breadwinner for their games - none of the Nikki games or MLQC are earning nearly as much as LADS does. So even if one of these games have had boycotts, LADS has been the one that has covered those earning losses for the last +2 years. But the other games can't cover for LADS's losses.

This boycott is EXTREMELY damaging for LADS:

Multimillion companies have multimillion company level expenses. Expenses don't care if there's a boycott going on - your staff needs to be paid, your premises still cost rent, your bills keep coming in.

Those expenses are often calculated so that you can cover them with expectations how much you make in the future.

New releases often cause a surge in downloads, and a new wave of stable income. This is something they expected with 6.0 release, but it didn't happen.

It's clear the Wander in Wonder rerun was "oh shit" move from Infold/Papergames. They likely wanted to please the CN audience, and tried to use one of the most iconic and successful banners to please them. It's hard to tell how badly it flopped yet, but I imagine it didn't bring the money they were expecting for.

I think they know they can't really push much reruns to make up the silence in new banners. I hope they are afraid of Rafayel's myth flopping, because that means they would be pressured to do something about Valko and the whole situation.

If they stay silent and don't push for events, even the antis and casual non-aware players will get naturally bored because of that silence.

I'm just curious why they haven't just broken the silence, because I imagine they would want to speak out already and release Valko. I mentioned it earlier and I still believe that it's in their best interests to release him, better sooner than later. All that work with Valko wouldn't go to waste, the main boycott would be solved, and this press surely would attract a lot of new players too.

Like they have the perfect opportunity right in front of their noses. Of course it's risky, of course there will be push back, but most of the players are on Valko's side.

Also something more to note - if you're boycotting right now, also be prepared to support LADS once Valko is out. Spend money, be vocal about him in social media, show overall support to the game, change your rating in the app stores. Give extremely clear signal the thing what we want is happening.

Both sleeves are done! Previous update

Here they are just directly from the needles. Then I finished my ends (that took like 1,5 hours 😭), and started to block them. I let them sit under warm water for 15-ish minutes, and laid out them to my blocking foam thingies, trying to keep the edges straight and lines as clean as possible. I laid them both over each other so they would be similar size as possible with each other.

I also refa that you could block acrylic yarn with a haidryer since the heat is important part for the blocking process, so I carefully blowdried the pieces with heat for a few minutes once the pieces were only slightly damp, and left them to dry still. Overall I left them like this for 30 hours, and then tried blowdrying them one more time and let them cool before i took them out from the blocking foam.

In hindsight, I think I might have needed to have 20 stitches less which is one diamond for the sleeves to not have it as loose, but I do like puffy sleeves so I'm not complaining too much 🫣 I might go back and redo them if I'm arsed, but... We'll see, I just want to move forward from the sleeves already, I have been working on these for like 5 months so I'm so done with these 😭

In good news, I worked on the pattern for the backpiece and the sidepieces based on the stuff I have learned so far, and I finally could start from the backpiece! I was contemplating if I should do the front pieces first since they are smaller and more difficult, but the backpiece basically ties everything together so I think it's smarter to do it first so I can match the front pieces to that.

It genuinely feels like Valko was revealed like 3 months ago, not 1 month ago 😭

But at this point, I feel like Infold/Papergames really don't have any excuse NOT to release Valko. With all that has come to light recently, I think they would just be squandering this opportunity if they didn't bring him back.

I know there's still some negativity around that, but considering how much people have fought for Valko, donated to charities, how official media looks at him... It's like the opportunity has been offered to them with a golden plate. This is the key to get out of this. And genuinely, if Valko gets a successful release after this, I think it might be even more better outcome to Infold than that Valko would have been released without all this drama around it.

I saw that there's a new option for Rafayel to change his outfit immediately when he asks your opinion, and he made me laugh so much 😂